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<p><strong>Gloomiest Albemarle budget news:</strong> The county projects a $1 million shortfall for this fiscal year and the next because of a fall in real estate assessments anticipated through 2013, the <em>Daily Progress</em> reports.</p>
<p><strong>Less troubled by tightened revenue stream:</strong> City Council chips in $750,000 to buy 6.5-acre Davis Field to enlarge Northeast Park October 3, the <em>Progress</em> reports, and plans to contribute $400K to UVA's entrance corridor project at Ivy Road and Emmet Street.</p>
<p><strong>Most damaged:</strong> Louisa County reports $80.6 million in damages from the August 23 earthquake, <a href="http://www.nbc29.com/story/15578213/va-county-reports-806m-in-earthquake-damage">according to the AP</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Fourth hottest summer:</strong> UVA climatologist Jerry Stenger says this past June, July, and August were the fourth hottest on record for this region, <a href="http://www.wina.com/Summer-Of-2011-Fourth-Hottest-On-Record/11024709">WINA reports</a>. Officially, it was very muggy as well.</p>
<p><strong>Raciest school photo?</strong> Greene County School Superintendent David Jeck's bare-shouldered beach photo is removed from the school division's website after some parents complain, <a href="http://www.wina.com/pages/11060924.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=9061687">according to WINA</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Worst crash:</strong> Six people are injured in a head-on collision on Old Lynchburg Road October 3 around 10pm, and two adults are airlifted with life-threatening injuries. Speed may have been a factor, <a href="http://www.nbc29.com/story/15608841/car-accident-on-old-lynchburg-road">according to NBC29</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Worst house fire:</strong> An early Saturday morning blaze on Harris Road leaves eight people without a roof over their heads, <a href="http://www.nbc29.com/story/15595100/house-fire-displaces-family-of-eight">NBC29 reports</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Worst news for Orange homeless:</strong> The Sheltering Arms homeless shelter says it plans to close at the end of October because of a lack of funds, the <a href="http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2011/sep/30/lacking-funds-orange-homeless-shelter-set-close-ar-1350054/"><em>Orange County Review</em></a> reports. The facility houses 25 people, including 12 children, and its staff is scrambling to find housing for them.</p>
<p><strong>Worst night for gun threats:</strong> As police investigate a report of gunfire at Garrett Street at 11:22pm September 27, 12 minutes later, a victim shows up at UVA Medical Center ER with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, says he was walking when he was struck, and had no description of the shooter. That same evening at around 2:24am, a male UVA student reports being robbed by two black men, one of whom was wielding a gun in the 500-block of Rugby Road, according to releases.</p>
<p><strong>Best temp work:</strong> Extras are being sought for Steven Spielberg's <em>Lincoln</em>, which will be <a href="http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/Extras_Still_Sought_for_iLincolni_Film_in_Virginia__130979848.html">shot in Richmond and Petersburg</a> and pays $79.95 a day for up to 10 hours or more, which works out to almost $8 an hour.</p>
<p><strong>Best example of the plight of the nonunion worker:</strong> See above.</p>
<p><strong>Heaviest metal:</strong> Churches have been targeted in Roanoke and Franklin counties by copper crooks who swipe copper gutters and outdoors heating units, the <a href="http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/Va_Churches_the_Target_of_Copper_Thieves_130970423.html">AP reports</a>. And in Staunton, two women allegedly were caught stealing $350 worth of scrap metal at 11am September 30 from a home construction site, according to the <a href="http://www.newsleader.com/article/20111003/NEWS01/111003006/1002/rss"><em>News Leader.</em></a> Hilda A. Ireland, 24, and Cassandra L. Wanzer, 46, are charged with grand larceny, and are suspects in the theft of $100 worth of iron from Shenandoah Valley Railroad.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Longest distance ballooning:</strong> The city releases 100 balloons September 30 carrying student-written notes as part of Charlottesville's pre-250th birthday celebration. One day later, Lisa Ecker finds some of the balloons in the Western Poconos of Pennsylvania, about 250 miles away as the balloon flies, the <em>DP</em> reports.</p>
<p><strong>Chilliest commemoration:</strong> Banned Books Week is marked by the Jefferson Madison Regional Library's central location September 30 with a list of books forbidden in libraries in this country, incluing <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, <em>The Grapes of Wrath</em>, and <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>. <a href="http://www.nbc29.com/story/15590081/jmrl-fights-against-book-banning">NBC29 has the story</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Worst omission in last week's <em>Hook</em>:</strong> An update on the story, <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/100993/confidential-or-censored-conduct-charges-filed-against-cav-daily">"Confidentiality or censorship: Cav Daily slapped with conduct charges,"</a> that charges had been dropped against four of the Cav Daily 5, leaving only editor-in-chief Jason Ally to face the University Judiciary Committee, failed to make the print edition.</p>
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